806. PERSEVERANCE, POSITIVITY & PRACTICE with Santiago Ruiz de Velasco from Oxford University Press
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What's Quixotic?
Quixotic is a funny word because when we're learning words, we want to know if they're broadly negative or positive. So sometimes the quixotic approach ends up paying off, but to start with, it will be things like, okay, you really are going to change something with peace in the today's world and stuff like that. It can be used in a positive way - I mean, for instance, when you describe there in the Collins down as quixotic person, it could be a person I would like to meet. But now it's negative in the sense that probably was, you know, a lot of the ideas are not very kind of fitted to
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